S 1900: Requires the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1900 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (b) The largest city in the county or, if there is no city in the 5 county, the municipality with the highest population in each county 6 based on the latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in 7 Washington county, or the county seat in Seneca county, shall have at 8 least one polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent 9 practicable if such city or municipality has public transportation 10 routes, such polling place shall be situated along such transportation 11 routes. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04856-01-5